1. DATASHEET
SANsymphony™-V
Storage Hypervisor
Features Summary
Solution Highlights
• Makes business continuity and
disaster recovery practical for
virtual servers, virtual desktops
and general IT consolidation
• Eliminates storage-
related disruptions due to
inevitable maintenance,
reconfiguration, upgrades,
expansion and failures
• Speeds up application
performance by removing
disk I/O bottlenecks
• Maximizes use of
available disk capacity
• Centralizes and automates
storage administration despite
variations in equipment
An introduction to the technology behind DataCore’s advanced
storage virtualization software.
SANsymphony-V software solves many of the difficult storage-related challenges
raised by server and desktop virtualization in contemporary data centers and
Cloud environments. The software forms an active, transparent virtualization
layer across diverse storage devices to maximize the availability, performance
and utilization of disk resources in IT organizations large and small.
The integrated set of centrally-managed data protection, provisioning, caching,
replication and migration functions operates uniformly over different models and
brands of storage equipment, assimilating current and future technologies non-
disruptively. You’ll find that SANsymphony-V cost-effectively delivers uninterrupted
data access, speeds up applications, and extends the life of your tiered storage
investments, while giving you peace of mind.
CENTRALIZED
MANAGEMENT
ANALYSIS &
REPORTING
ASYNC
REMOTE
REPLICATION
THIN
PROVISIONING
DISK
POOLING
AUTO-TIERING
HIGH SPEED
CACHING
SYNC MIRRORING
(HIGH-AVAILABILITY)
UNIFIED STORAGE
NAS/SAN
ONLINE
SNAPSHOT
CONTINUOUS
DATA PROTECTION
& RECOVERY
DISK
MIGRATION
LOAD
BALANCING
RAID
STRIPING
CLOUD
GATEWAY
Figure 1 - Infrastructure-wide functions work
across unlike and incompatible storage devices

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Compatibility
Storage manufacturers
supported
All of the popular disk manufacturers
are supported.These include:
• Dell
• Dot Hill
• EMC
• Fujitsu
• Fusion-IO
• Hitachi Data Systems (HDS)
• HP
• IBM
• LSI
• NetApp
• Nexsan
• Oracle (Sun)
• Promise
• Seagate
• STEC
• Texas Memory Systems
• Violin Memory
• X-IO
Host operating systems
supported
• MicrosoftWindows Server 2012,
2008 R2, 2003 and 2000
• MicrosoftWindows 8, 7 and XP
• Apple MacOS X
• UnixHP-UX
• IBM AIX
• Sun Solaris
• RedHat Linux
• SUSE Linux
Server hypervisors supported
• VMware ESX, vSphere
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Citrix XenServer
Systems management
• Microsoft System Center
• VMware vCenter
• Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer
Disk packaging supported
• Internal disk drives
• External JBODs
• External storage systems
Disk interfaces supported
• Direct-attached and
SAN-based connections
• SAS
• SATA
• iSCSI
• Fibre Channel
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE) via CNA switches
• SCSI
• IDE
Media supported
• Flash Memory Cards and
Solid State Disks (SSDs)
• Standard Magnetic Rotating
Disk Drives (HDDs)
(Please see www.datacore.com
for more recent updates to the list
of supported environments)